President's One-on-One Game
Gets Workout Courting Senate

By

Greg Hitt Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated March 9, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- When George W. Bush urged Blanche Lincoln to consider his $1.6 trillion tax cut, the Democratic senator from Arkansas had a couple of suggestions of her own for working across party lines. She handed the president two letters: One urged him to expedite disaster relief for Arkansas farmers, the other requested increased efforts to combat poverty in the Mississippi Delta.